Devil in the Flesh (1985)
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Based on Raymond Radiguet's book of the same (French) title, this erotic film revolves around a September-May adulterous love affair. Unlike the book, the setting is the Australian outback in 1943, and the French heroine Marthe (Katia Caballero) has been legally "quarantined" by the Aussie government for the duration of the war. That is to say, her Italian husband has been put in jail, and she is not allowed to leave the country. After meeting schoolboy Paul Hansen (Keith Smith), sexual sparks ignite a smoldering desire, and the two eventually are engaged in an all-out affair. Rumor and innuendo and Paul's parents notwithstanding, the affair runs its course -- but the tragedy that ends the book has been written out here. As this film was released, director Marco Bellocchio was completing his own 1987 version of the same story, Il Diavolo in Corpo. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Katia Caballero - Marthe
- John Morris - John Hansen
- Colin Duckworth - Pierre Fournier
- Louise Elvin - Blonde Model
- John Murphy - Brother Murphy
- Luciano Marcucci - Ermanno
- Keith Smith - Paul Hansen
- Jill Forster - Jill Hansen
- Reine Lavoie - Madeleine Fournier
- Jeremy Johnson - Simon Greene
- Peter Cummins - Disciplinarian Brother
- Director(s):
- Scott Murray
- Writer(s):
- Scott Murray
- Producer(s):
- John B. Murray
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